Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 16 shown for “James D. Stout” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tea Spoon
James D. Stout · 1825

Fanny Elssler
James Varick Stout, 1809 - 1860 · c. 1841

Ladle
James D. Stout · 1820–30

Broadside offering reward for the capture of the enslaved man Richard Low
Artist not stated in the record · July 19, 1853

The Theory and Practice of Gardening : Wherein is Fully Handled all that Relates to Fine Gardens, Commonly called Pleasure-Gardens, as Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens &c. ....
Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville · 1712

Sphagnum cyclophyllum Sull. & Lesq.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1978

Saint James the Greater
Gil de Siloe · 1489–93

Lygodium smithianum C. Presl
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Nov 1984

James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35

Appliqué Figure of the Apostle James
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98

Transverse Flute in D-flat
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

Spout Cup
Jacob Boelen · ca. 1714

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

The Story of Joseph
Biagio d'Antonio

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 6540 matched · 24 examined · 6 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 789638 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 23:21 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.